On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Steven Toth <stoth at linuxtv.org> wrote:
> Devin Heitmueller wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Steven Toth <stoth at linuxtv.org> wrote:
>>>>>> Devin Heitmueller wrote:
>>>>>>>> Thanks for your help in getting this pulled in. The moral of this
>>>> story seems to have been that it's *way* easier to just buy the damn
>>>> thing than to add support for someone's device remotely. 92 emails
>>>> over three weeks to get support added versus 1 evening to get support
>>>> working right. :-)
>>>>>> /me nods
>>>>>> Better still, have someone give you a device for free in return for help.
>>>> Better still, have a vendor give you a device for free and make the
>> datasheets available in return for having their device supported. :-)
>> Believe it or not but I'm starting to see that happen, although with some
> restrictions.
Well, sign me up! I would love to help the efforts to expand device
support, but at this point I'm personally blocked by the fact that I
have already bought four tuners in the last year, combined with the
lack of actual documentation which results in it taking *way* longer
than it has to.
Sure, I got all four of them to work which is progress, but it would
have gone much faster if the docs were available to me and I wasn't
laying out my own cash to buy tuners I have no personal use for.
I've spent all this time to learn the codebase and I'd like to
leverage that knowledge more, but now I have to ask myself, "What am I
going to do with four tuners?"
Devin
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